Identification of salt-tolerant barley genotypes using multiple-traits index and yield performance at the early growth and maturity stages

Bulletin of the National Research Centre

Table 3 AMMI analysis of variance for grain yield of the 20 investigated barley genotypes

Source of variation	df	MS	F-value	(G + E + GE)%	GE%
Environment (E)	4	24.31	23.12^***	26
Replication/(E)	10	1.05	3.45^***	12
Genotype (G)	19	2.27	7.44^***	22
GE	76	1.08	3.52^***
PC1	22	1.53	5.03^***	41.3	41.3
PC2	20	1.32	4.31^***	32.2	73.6
PC3	18	0.79	2.58^***	17.3	90.9
PC4	16	0.66	1.52^ns	9.1	100
Residuals	190	0.31
Environment	YZD1	YZD2	BRJ1	BRJ2	ESF1
Mean GY (± SD)	3.48 (0.08)	3.24 (0.06)	4.30 (0.09)	4.73 (0.12)	4.40 (0.013)

ns, non-significant; ***, P < 0.001
YZD1, Yazd location (2018–2019); YZD2, Yazd location (2019–2020); BRJ1, Birjand location (2018–2019); BRJ2, Birjand location (2019–2020); ESF1, Esfahan location (2018–2019)